Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dramatically, Mr. Bonynge next described to the Commission "a man of vicious and ruthless disposition": Captain Frederick Hinsch of the German Secret Service who, while held in Baltimore on the interned steamship Neckar, manufactured tubes of anthrax cultures in his cabin, then sallied forth to hire Negroes who jabbed the germs into horses and mules bought by the Allies for War purposes. One batch of 4,500 beasts was jabbed so thoroughly that not one reached France alive...
...much this agreement will really help the over-produced tire industry is yet to be seen, but it aims to terminate the most vicious phase of overproduction: price-cutting. The recent war began around July i when one large manufacturer broke the unwritten law of the tire world by stealing an important southwest dealership from another. Retaliatory steps were taken; other companies became involved; havoc was played as each company vied in adding more 10% discounts to its prices than rivals...
Charge: BCG vaccine is vicious, because composed of living tuberculosis bacilli. It killed 57 infants at Lubeck, Germany, this summer...
American politics and has failed every time. He asked me to write for his press last summer and I declined [cries of Hear! Hear!" from Baldwin sympathizer*]. ln October he wrote a vicious article about me, and at the same time a fulsome account of Mr. MacDonald whom he has abused like a pickpocket within the last two months...
...opinion that it should have been worked out in such a way that men having substantial incomes should not draw pensions from the Government . . . [also] I do not believe it is right to change our national policy to pay disability allowances to men who may destroy their health by vicious habits...